The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three PartsAlbion Press: : Printed by J. Cundee, Ivy Lane, for T. Williams, Stationers' Court, and T. Hurst, Paternoster-Row, 1804 - 155 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... glory of a riper age . * 50 * Cowley , Dryden , and Chatterton , wrote several admired poems at a very early age . Milton wrote his paraphrases of the CXIV and cxv psalms , at fifteen years of age . Tasso wrote his heroic poem ...
... glory of a riper age . * 50 * Cowley , Dryden , and Chatterton , wrote several admired poems at a very early age . Milton wrote his paraphrases of the CXIV and cxv psalms , at fifteen years of age . Tasso wrote his heroic poem ...
Pagina 14
... glory which can never fade ; appeared in the world , we will find that they were all writ- ten without attention to the rules or directions of any critic . Milton , though he had Aristotle's writings full in his re- membrance , nobly ...
... glory which can never fade ; appeared in the world , we will find that they were all writ- ten without attention to the rules or directions of any critic . Milton , though he had Aristotle's writings full in his re- membrance , nobly ...
Pagina 26
... Glory the Columbian name ; Drive darkness far before thy golden ray And let us live beneath thy noon of day --- Some native bard O kindle with thy fire ! And bid him pour the torrent of thy lyre , Unfold thy visions to his searching ...
... Glory the Columbian name ; Drive darkness far before thy golden ray And let us live beneath thy noon of day --- Some native bard O kindle with thy fire ! And bid him pour the torrent of thy lyre , Unfold thy visions to his searching ...
Pagina 71
... glory on the poet's name ? Why did I flee the bloody fields of war , Nor meet contention at my country's bar ? Behold the trophies which I now have won , My works neglected and myself undone . In place of fame --- yon little cottage ...
... glory on the poet's name ? Why did I flee the bloody fields of war , Nor meet contention at my country's bar ? Behold the trophies which I now have won , My works neglected and myself undone . In place of fame --- yon little cottage ...
Pagina 73
... glory are no more ; Her once fair scenes lie wrapt in dreary gloom , And taste sits weeping o'er her darling tomb . * * 280 * Greece , once the favoured region of literature and sci- ence : Rome , once the haughty mistress of the world ...
... glory are no more ; Her once fair scenes lie wrapt in dreary gloom , And taste sits weeping o'er her darling tomb . * * 280 * Greece , once the favoured region of literature and sci- ence : Rome , once the haughty mistress of the world ...
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amid APPENDIX Ariosto arms art thou bard beam beauty behold beneath bids blast bold bosom breast breath brow Chill clouds dark death delight Demosthenes divine dwell earth Eclogues fame Fancy Fingal fire footsteps Gallileo give gloomy glory Greece head hear heart heaven Henry Fielding honours Hope idolatry Invention kindled king light literature lyre Massillon MIDNIGHT HYMN mighty Milton mind morning mountains mournful muse Nature Nature's never night numbers o'er Orla Ossian Paradise Lost passions peace Petrarch Pindar plains poem poet poetry POWERS OF GENIUS repose rise roll Rome Rous'd Sappho says scene shades Shakespeare shew Sir William Jones sleep smile song sorrow soul spirit spread storm strain stream sublimity sword taste tears tempest terror thee thou thoughts thro throne thunder tion toil truth vale Vaucluse wandering waves wild winds wings writers youth
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Pagina 91 - stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than
Pagina 16 - And let us hear Bernardo speak of this. Bernardo... .Last night of all, When yon same star that's westward from the pole, Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus, and myself, The bell then beating one--- Marctllus... .Peace, break thee off,
Pagina 91 - Job xxviii. 20, 22, 23. Whence then cometh wisdom, and where is the place of understanding? 22, Destruction and Death say, we have heard the fame thereof with our ears. 23, God understandeth the way thereof, for he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven."—
Pagina 92 - out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. Sing unto God ye kingdoms of the Earth: O sing praises unto the Lord : To him that rideth upon the heaven of heavens which were of old;
Pagina 114 - In our little journey up to the grand chartreuse, I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation, that there was no restraining : not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry. There are certain scenes
Pagina 103 - to my foe; Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle; Under whose shade the ramping lion slept; Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree, And kept low shrubs from Winter's powerful wind.
Pagina 12 - care not Fortune what you me deny; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Thro* which Aurora
Pagina 102 - So to night-wand'ring sailors pale with fears, Wide o'er the watry waste a light appears, Which on the far-seen mountain blazing high, Streams from some lonely watch-tower to the sky : With mournful eyes they gaze and gaze again: Loud howls the storm and drives them o'er the main. Next his high head the helmet
Pagina 13 - the ear was mistress of their powers No Bard could please me but whose lyre was tun'd To nature's Praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigu'd me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus, assembling as he
Pagina 90 - Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the